Warner Bros has threatened legal action if Bollywood releases an unauthorised remake of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, according to AFP.

The US studio placed advertisements in the Times Of India warning that it would sue for breach of copyright after reports surfaced that Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai had been lined up to star in Vipul Shah's Action Replay.

The film's plot is believed to centre on Kumar's character undergoing a reverse-ageing process that would mirror Brad Pitt's role in Benjamin Button.

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Warner Bros stated that anybody producing a film "either in English or Hindi or other language, having a similar script, screenplay or storyline or character sketches or interplay of characters or sequence of events" would be taken to court.

The studio failed in a lawsuit against the producers of Indian film Hari Puttar: A Comedy Of Terrors last year, claiming that the title was too similar to its Harry Potter franchise.